Recruit - Iron

Marine - Bronze

According to the stats, it should take you approximately 176 games or roughly 57 hours if you get the average amount of points per game which is 5,467.

Realistically, good players normally don't get that many points if they are playing competitively, and that also cuts down on the length of the game. So it still should take around 57 hours, but over a longer span of games.

If all you are trying to get is the achievement and don't care about the game itself, try deathmatch. It can get you about 1.5x the amount of points Standard does.

Marine - Silver

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According to the stats, it should take you approximately 176 games or roughly 57 hours if you get the average amount of points per game which is 5,467.

Realistically, good players normally don't get that many points if they are playing competitively, and that also cuts down on the length of the game. So it still should take around 57 hours, but over a longer span of games.

If all you are trying to get is the achievement and don't care about the game itself, try deathmatch. It can get you about 1.5x the amount of points Standard does.

Recruit - Gold

Thanks for posting this information, it's the last achievement I need for any of the Halo games (until CEA), and I've been avoiding it because I'm pretty bad at the game, but this makes it seem a lot more reachable (though still quite time consuming...)

Marine - Onyx

SOOOOOO long, I plan on reaching it someday, I am only like 130,000 points away, which isn't that bad. but the real problem is all the rushers make the game no fun, you cant have an epic battle most of the time.

Recruit - Silver

didn't take me too long, i guess about 1-2 months.

I have played about 400-500 games so far. ( I hate the leaderboards reset!! )

I wish you could do over the ranks, because whenever i join a match and my teammates are generals too the opponents quit the match. Very stressing to find another match because it takes ages sometimes.

Marine - Iron

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didn't take me too long, i guess about 1-2 months.

I have played about 400-500 games so far. ( I hate the leaderboards reset!! )

I wish you could do over the ranks, because whenever i join a match and my teammates are generals too the opponents quit the match. Very stressing to find another match because it takes ages sometimes.

But, at the same point, those Generals could be the "weak generals". I consider those the Generals that don't seem to know what a General should know.

Honestly, it took me a year. The score drop definitely helped me get there.

Marine - Gold

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SOOOOOO long, I plan on reaching it someday, I am only like 130,000 points away, which isn't that bad. but the real problem is all the rushers make the game no fun, you cant have an epic battle most of the time.

Am almost 2 million points over the requirement :) if you enjoy them game time doesn't matter just have fun, if you're only looking for the achievement and nothing else, try deathmatch use tanks extra, stuff that doesn't die as easily to maximise your multiplyer

Marine - Gold

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didn't take me too long, i guess about 1-2 months.

I have played about 400-500 games so far. ( I hate the leaderboards reset!! )

I wish you could do over the ranks, because whenever i join a match and my teammates are generals too the opponents quit the match. Very stressing to find another match because it takes ages sometimes.

But, at the same point, those Generals could be the "weak generals". I consider those the Generals that don't seem to know what a General should know.

Honestly, it took me a year. The score drop definitely helped me get there.

I have no diffculty finiding mataches, just intelligent allies to play them with :( i always seem to get stuck with the brigadeer who thinks he can beat wolverenes with Vultures -_- and i haven't found anyone in 3v3's in about a month who actually uses a headset

ODST - Onyx

Send a request out to some of the people that play religiously if you want help. Leaderboards have people. Some friendly, some not.

Or

Play a gametype with friends as much as possible. It will take a while, but if you want that achievement - you will have to work for it.

random 3s is a good way to get experience points. Most games if you use a rushing tactic will last around 10 minutes or less.

Just know that it takes a while.

Solid answer. It took me nearly a solid week of grinding out games to reach General in Halo Wars. I stopped playing after that because I was so tired of playing. Grinding out Inheritor on Halo Reach was a cake walk compared to Halo Wars

ODST - Iron

It's tough for me to recall. When I originally earned my General rank, the amount of exp needed to achieve it was a huge difference (as in way more exp was needed). As long as you place well, and destroy everything you can possible destroy, you should get a decent amount of in game points which translates to a ton of exp. Especially with the bonuses you earn at the end of the game. I agree with someone who posted earlier that a 2-3 day amount of game time seems fairly accurate.